Gender crimes are crimes of lesser humanity. Francisca Galvan has been documenting and denouncing through international press the corruption in the femicides investigations by part of the authorities of the Chihuahua State. Now her life is in danger in Mexico. She ran away from the country, and now she is detained by the immigration authorities in the United States.

Francisca Galván Segura is the legal representant of the organization named Mothers of Missing and Murdered Children in Juarez, Mexico. These crimes have been committed for the last twenty years, with the implication and corruption of government authorities of Chihuahua State and organizations that have made of femicides their source of income.She has been collaborating, for the last year, with Guadalupe Lizarraga, reporter from Los Angeles Press. She has documented and denounced the existence of 233 human bodies which have been kept for years in the morgue. She also has denounced police corruption in the femicide crimes.In January 2013, after participating in The Walk for Life of the Missing Girls, from Juarez to Chihuahua City, demanding Chihuahua State Government the truth in these gender crimes, she was harassed by municipal authorities, and by the director of the organization called Justice for Our Children. She was threatened by phone, on two occasions. She was called to her phone, announcing that her niece was going to be beheaded. Also, she was alerted by an anonymous person, to the same phone, to hide all her files and run away from Juarez immediately.Francisca Galván is a Strong defender of Human Rights. She has been volunteering. giving part of her life, committed, in a daily basis, her time and life searching for the truth and justice in these crimes, where the local authorities has become executors of activists and social justice fighters.Now, she is imprisoned in Otay Detention Center since February 22nd 2013, when she ran away from Juarez City, with her niece and her niece’s mother, asking for protection of her lives.Francisca Galván Segura’s case expose the legal void in US Immigration Policies, because she has been detained without committing any crime; on the contrasts, she has been fighting for justice in her own country. She has been denouncing the massacres resulting from violence and corruption of the Mexican Government. She is now a political inmateTherefore, we are asking for her humanitarian release of Francisca Galván Segura, who has achieved that 27 Juarez Mothers has found the corpses of their children.Representatives of: Ángeles Sin Fronteras Org, Humanitarial International ProMigrant Coalition, Abajo y a la Izquierda Org, Colectivo Zapatista Org, Mothers and Relatives of Missing Girls Committee.